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Oh man MJ, what a bummer. I bet that was a nasty mess to clean up.

Oh man MJ, what a bummer. I bet that was a nasty mess to clean up. Freezer may be shot too. I had a refrigerator once that after we lost power, I just could not get the rotten smell out of it. I think it permeated the insulation and I had to junk the frig.

Well I used like a gallon of bleach to clean it, and it has been left open. All smell is gone this morning when I went down there. I don't need the freezer any more :bat: right now so I will wait a week or so before i plug it in and see what happens?
I tell you I was close to duct taping it and throwing the hole thing away!! But I am to cheap for that.

I fel your pain MJ. I lost my freezer about 2 months ago and lost all the fish i had from the whole summer and about 100 pounds of deer from last year...steaks, smoked sausage, ground, etc...

I lost our freezer about 3 weeks ago, but caught it before most of it melted. I know the feeling though as we had just slaughtered a steer a few years back and lightning got our deep freezer. We didn't catch it for 2 weeks though:cen:! We keep the freezer in the workshop which is seperated from all of the houses. We noticed the flies before we caught it.

flies are never a good sign

well I thought the smell was gone, but after going out for a few hours and coming home I could smell it still, Not real bad but it was there. I may end up getting rid of it?? we shall see.
I am getting a freezer alarm for both freezers this week.

might want to try this sstuff sam's club has called "odeban" or something like that..

I will look into it thanks.

It be a shame to get rid of it as it was a fridge we got brand new 10 years ago, and it is better then the one in my house!

Good thing my wife can't get in the basement, if she saw how clean I got that thing she be having me do this one also!!:cen: